INternational Journal of Criminal Justice
Sciences

International
Editorial Advisory Board

Ali Wardak (UK/Afghanistan)

Ali Wardak was born in Afghanistan and is a
graduate of Kabul University in Law and Jurisprudence. He
received his PhD degree in Criminology from the University of
Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1995 where he also worked as a tutor of
Criminology and Criminal Justice between 1992 - 1995, and as a
research fellow between 1995 - 1996. Currently, Dr Wardak
teaches criminology at the University of Glamorgan, where he is
also the Director of a Home Office research project that looks
at the criminogenic needs and probation experiences of Black and
Asian offenders in England and Wales. He conducts a research
project by a consortium of researchers that include, Professor
Peter Raynor and Dr Maurice Vanstone (Swansea University)
Professor David Smith (Lancaster University), Dr Bankole Cole
(Lincoln University) and four full-time research assistants.

Arvind Verma (USA/India)

Arvind Verma has been a member in the Indian
Police Service [IPS] and has served for many years in the State
of Bihar, holding several senior level positions in the
organization. His first degree was in Engineering Mathematics
from the Indian Institute of Technology- Kanpur and he earned
his doctoral degree in Criminology from Simon Fraser University-
Canada. His doctoral work was concerned with analysis of
criminal justice data using a variety of mathematical techniques
such as Fuzzy Logic, Topology and Fractals. He has served as the
Managing Editor of Police Practice and Research: An
International Journal and he has also been an advisor to the
Bureau of Police Research and Development in India. His current
research interests are in Data Analysis and Visualization,
Criminal Justice in India and Comparative Policing. His recent
publications include books titled ‘Understanding the Police in
India’ [Lexus-Nexus-Butterworth]; ‘The Indian Police: A Critical
Review’; and journal articles- ‘Anatomy of Riots: A Situational
Prevention Approach’; ‘Measuring Police Performance in India: An
application of Data Envelopment Analysis’; The State and
Coercive Power in India and Visualization of Criminal Activity
in an Urban Population. He is currently on the faculty of the
Department of Criminal Justice at Indiana University-
Bloomington.

Barbara Vettori (Italy)

Barabara Vettori is an Assistant professor in
sociology of deviance at the Faculty of Sociology, Università
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy, where she teaches
methodology for criminological research and statistics and
techniques for crime data analysis. Member of the Department of
Sociology of the same University. She has over 10 years of
professional experience in the field of criminological research.
In this time span, she took part as project manager in a variety
of cross-border research and spoke at several international
conferences. Her main research interests are organised and
economic crime and the evaluation of related contrast policies -
in particular, anti-money laundering regulation and confiscation
legislation. These are also the main issues of her publications.
Since 2007 she has been member of the Informal Expert Group on
Confiscation and Assets Recovery of the European Commission, DG
Home Affairs. She is international expert for OSCE on criminal
liability of legal persons.

Dominique Wisler (Congo)

Dominique Wisler is a United Nations senior
consultant specialized in the internal security sector reform in
transition states. He is currently a Senior Advisor on Policing,
UNDP-BPCR, at Kinhasa, Congo. He holds a bachelor degree in
philosophy (University of Fribourg), a master degree in
international relations (Graduate Institute for International
Relations, Geneva), and a PhD from the University of Geneva
where he taught political sciences until 2002. He has been
engaged in police reforms in Switzerland, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Mozambique, Sudan, Haiti, Democratic Republic of
Congo, and Iraq. His most recent publications are a comparative
book on community policing, edited with his colleague Ihekwoaba
Onwudiwe from the University of Southern Texas (Community
Policing. International Patterns and Comparative Perspectives,
CRC Press, London, 2009), a comparative book on protest policing
in Switzerland, written with his colleague Marco Tackenberg
(Protest and Police, Haupt Verlag, Bern, 2007), and a book on
the republican adventure in Switzerland (Geneva Democracy, Georg,
Genève, 2008).

Emilio C. Viano (USA)

Emilio C. Viano is Professor of Criminology
and Victimology at The American University in Washington DC. He
has earned doctorates in Europe and the United States and a LLM
in the U.K. He has written or edited more than 30 books and
published over 120 articles in refereed and other journals. He
has been honored with academic prizes and honors by various
Universities and other institutions throughout the world. He is
often invited to offer his expert opinion, speak at
international conferences and meetings, and provide training to
victim assistance and criminal justice personnel. Prof. Viano is
often interviewed by the media, printed and electronic, for his
expert opinion on strategic issues, terrorism, international
politics and other current topics. He often appears on CNN, BBC,
Voice of America and many other international television
programs. Prof. Viano is member of many editorial boards and,
among others, of the Board of Directors of the International
Society of Criminology.

Eric Chui (Hong Kong)

Eric Chui is a Professor in the
Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the
University of Hong Kong, and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the
School of Social Science at the University of Queensland,
Australia. His main research and teaching interests revolve
around criminal justice, criminology, youth justice, and social
work practice with offenders. He is the co-editor of Moving
Probation Forward: Evidence, Arguments and Practice (Pearson
Education 2003), Experiences of Transnational Chinese Migrants
in the Asia-Pacific (Nova Science Publishers, 2006), Social Work
and Human Services Best Practice (Federation Press, 2006),
Research Methods for Law (Edinburgh University Press, 2007) and
Understanding Criminal Justice in Hong Kong (Willan, 2008). He
is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Offender
Therapy and Comparative Criminology (Sage) and the Managing
Editor and Book Review Editor of Asian Journal of Criminology
(Springer).

Eric G. Lambert (USA)

Eric Lambert is a professor and chair in the
Department of Legal Studies, The University of Mississippi, USA.
He received his Ph.D. from the School of Criminal Justice at the
State University of New York at Albany. His research interests
include organizational issues, job and organizational effects on
the attitudes, intentions, and behaviors of criminal justice
employees, and the international perceptions, attitudes, and
views on criminal justice issues.

Fasihuddin (Pakistan)

Fasihuddin is the founder of Pakistan Society of
Criminology and Editor-in-Chief of Pakistan Journal of
Criminology. He is MBBS, LLB and MA in Political Science with
Gold Medal. He is a senior officer of Police Service of Pakistan
(PSP) and the author of ‘Expanding Criminology to Pakistan’. He
presented his field experiences in many international
conferences and seminars and visited many countries including
USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark,
Turkey, Thailand, Nepal, China and Japan. A number of his papers
are published internationally. He is respected as a pioneer of
criminological studies in his country where he is constantly
engaged through the forum of Pakistan Society of Criminology to
bring academics and practitioners of his country to one place
and organize the individual efforts of Pakistani researchers and
law-enforcement officials into an academically viable whole. He
is a member of many international societies of criminology and
police forums around the world. His special interests are:
police reforms, children and women rights and policing in
Pakistan.

G.S. Bajpai (India)

G.S. Bajpai is currently Professor at the
National Law University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. Earlier he
was a Professor and
Chairperson at the Centre for Criminal Justice Administration,
National Law India University, Bhopal, India. Prior to this, he
held positions at Bureau of Police Research & Development, New
Delhi and Punjab Police Academy, Punjab and Department of
Criminology & Forensic Science, University of Saugar (M.P). He
had about twenty years of research experience and fifteen years
of teaching experience at postgraduate level. He has completed
six major research projects and published three books. Dr Bajpai
held many prestigious international assignments. It includes
Indo-French Cultural Exchange Programme (1999) at University of
Paris, the Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, (2003-04),
University of Leicester, UK, Tokiwa International Victimology
Institute, Japan as visiting faculty in July 2007. Recently, he
has been selected under Indo-Hungary Academic Exchange Program
(2009) to undertake research and teaching assignment at National
Institute of Criminology, Budapest in the area of ‘Restorative
Justice’. Dr. Bajpai has been conferred various awards and
honours like G. B. Pant National Award of the Ministry of Home
affairs, New Delhi, ISC Prof S.S. Srivastava Memorial Award for
excellence in research/teaching and Fellow of Indian Society of
Criminology (FISC). His current interests include criminal
justice studies, victimology, human rights, forensic science,
legal research method, judicial impact analysis and etc.

George E. Higgins (USA)

George E. Higgins is a Professor in
the Department of Justice Administration at the University of
Louisville. He received his Ph.D. in Criminology at
Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Prior to joining the
faculty at the University of Louisville, he was a tenure track
faculty member in Criminal Justice at West Virginia State
University. His research focuses on testing criminological
theories. Dr. Higgins publishes consistently with students and
colleagues from around world.

Glenn Dawes (Australia)

Glenn Dawes is an Associate Professor
Sociology & Criminology, School of Arts and Social Sciences,
James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. He is
Associate Dean of Research for the Faculty of Arts Education and
Social Sciences. He teaches sociology and criminology. In
addition he conducts research in the areas of youth studies with
an emphasis on young people and the criminal justice system.
Glenn's research interests are closely linked to his work in
North Queensland communities in areas such as school
disengagement among young people, young people and crime on the
Townsville Strand, Youth and hooning in North Queensland, young
people and car theft in Queensland, the reintegration of
Indigenous recidivist offenders post-release and Sudanese people
and their interactions with the criminal justice system. He is
the author of a book entitled “Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Subcultures and Education” and has published in
academic journals.His
areas of expertise are: Sociology; Criminology; Juvenile
Justice; Race Hate Crimes; Educational Disengagement;
Vigilantism; and Indigenous Social Issues.

Gloria Laycock (UK)

Gloria Laycock graduated in psychology from
University College London in 1968 and completed her PhD at UCL
in 1977. She has worked in the Home Office for over thirty years
of which almost twenty years have been spent on research and
development in the policing and crime prevention fields. She
established and headed the Home Office Police Research Group and
edited its publications on policing and crime prevention for
seven years. She has extensive experience in this country and
has acted as a consultant on policing and crime prevention in
North America, Australia, Israel, South Africa and Europe. She
was awarded an International Visiting Fellowship by the United
States Department of Justice in 1999 and was based in Washington
DC. She returned in April 2001 from a four-month consultancy at
the Australian Institute of Criminology in Canberra to become
Director of the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at UCL.

Gorazd Meško (Slovenia)

Gorazd Meško, is Full Professor of
Criminology and Dean at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and
Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia as well as the
editor-in-chief of the Journal of Criminal Justice and Security.
He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Criminology,
University of Cambridge (1995, 2001) and Centre for Criminology,
University of Oxford (1996, 1999). He was a visiting professor
at SCJ, GVSU, Michigan in 2000. He has also been a visiting
professor at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
(2002-2008) and at the University of Belgrade (2009 -). His
recent bibliography includes books: Corruption in Central and
Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Millennium (ed., 2000),
Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice (co-ed., 2004),
Policing in Emerging Democracies – Critical Reflections (co-ed.,
2007), Crime, Media and Fear of Crime (co-ed., 2009) and Crime
Control Policy and Prevention – Slovenian Perspectives (co-ed.).
He has also been a guest editor of the Policing – An
International Journal of Police Strategies and Management (a
special issue on policing in SE Europe, 2009/3). In addition, he
has been a head of a European Society of Criminology WG on
criminology curricula since 2005 and a correspondent of the
International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (a 2009 report
on crime prevention in SE Europe). His present research includes
studies comparative criminology and victimology, fear of crime
in former Yugoslav republics (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia &
Herzegovina, Serbia and FYR of Macedonia), history of
criminology and crimes against environment.

Georgios A. Antonopoulos
(UK)

Georgios A. Antonopoulos, national of Greece,
obtained his PhD from the Department of Sociology and Social
Policy of Durham University in the UK. He is currently Professor in Criminology at the School of Social
Sciences and Law, Teesside University in the UK. His teaching
and research interests include the criminality, criminalisation
and victimisation of minority ethnic groups, qualitative
research methods, illegal markets and ‘organised crime’. He has
conducted research for the local authorities in Britain, the
British Police, the British Ministry of Justice and the European
Commission, His articles have appeared in the British Journal of
Criminology, European Journal of Criminology, Trends in
Organised Crime, Global Crime, and Crime, Law & Social Change.
He is an associate of the Cross-Border Crime Colloquium, and
member of the editorial boards of the journals Criminal Justice
Studies, Trends in Organised Crime and Global Crime. In 2009 he
received the European Society of Criminology Young Criminologist
Award.

Graeme R. Newman (USA)

Graeme R. Newman is distinguished teaching
professor at the School of Criminal Justice, University at
Albany and Associate Director of the Center for Problem-Oriented
Policing. He has advised the United Nations on crime and justice
issues over many years, and in 1990 established the United
Nations Crime and Justice Information Network. He has published
works in the fields of the history and philosophy of punishment,
international criminal justice, private security, situational
crime prevention, problem-oriented policing and information
technology. Among the recent books he has written or edited are:
Super Highway Robbery (Willan, 2003, with Ronald V. Clarke), The
Global Report on Crime and Justice (United Nations/Oxford,
1998), Crime and Immigration edited with Joshua Freilich (Ashgate,
2006), Designing our Crime from Products and Systems edited with
Ronald V. Clarke (Willan 2006), and Outsmarting the Terrorists
edited with Ronald V. Clarke (Praeger 2006).

Ihekwoaba D. Onwudiwe (USA)

Ihekwoaba D. Onwudiwe received his Ph. D. in
criminology and criminal justice from the School of Criminology
at Florida State University in 1993. Currently, he is Professor,
a member of the graduate faculty, and Interim Director of the
graduate programs in the Department of Administration of
Justice, School of Public Affairs, at Texas Southern University.
He has published many articles on international policing,
terrorism, transnational crimes, and African criminology. His
book, the Globalization of Terrorism, published by Ashgate, has
received worldwide attention. He and Dominique Wisler co-edited
International Patterns of Community Policing, published in April
2009 by CRC Press, a division of Taylor and Francis. Dr.
Onwudiwe is currently the Editor In-Chief of the International
Executive Symposium (IPES) Working Paper Series (WPS). He serves
as a reviewer to many academic outlets and several refereed
journals in the discipline of criminology and criminal justice.
He is a member of various Editorial Boards. His expertise and
consulting interests range from counter-terrorism, intelligence
and security, human trafficking, and democratic policing.

Joanna Shapland (UK)

Joanna Shapland is Professor of Criminal Justice
and Director of the Centre for Criminological Research at the
University of Sheffield, and also Executive Editor of the
International Review of Victimology. She is currently evaluating
the use of restorative justice with adult offenders in England
and Wales, and undertaking a longitudinal study of desistance
from offending.

Jody Miller (USA)

Jody Miller is an feminist criminology Professor
and Associate Dean at the School of Criminal Justice at the
Rutgers University (Newark). Her education includes: B.S. in
Journalism from Ohio University, 1989 (Summa Cum Laude); M.A. in
Sociology from Ohio University, 1990; M.A. in Women's Studies at
Ohio State University, 1991; and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the
University of Southern California in 1996. She specializes in
feminist theory and qualitative research methods. Her research
focuses on gender, crime and victimization, in the context of
urban communities, the commercial sex industry, sex tourism, and
youth gangs. Dr. Miller has also been elected as the Executive
Counsellor of the American Society of Criminology for 2009 and
she has also received the University of Missouri-St. Louis
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Service in 2007. She is the
author of Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban
Inequality, and Gendered Violence (New York University Press,
2008)—a finalist for the 2008 C. Wright Mills Award—and One of
the Guys: Girls Gangs and Gender (Oxford University Press,
2001), as well as numerous articles and book chapters, including
in Criminology, British Journal of Criminology, and Gender &
Society.

K. S. Hamid (Malaysia)

K.S. Hamid @ Hamid Ibrahim is currently the
Executive Director, Denning's Research Centre (A Centre for
Legal Information and Research) in Malysia. He had education in
Public and Local Government Administration in South West College
London and University of Wisconsin, USA. He was the Editor,
Malaysian Current Law Journal 1981-1988, Malaysian Law News
1990-1996, All Malaysia Law Reports 1992-1996, Malaysian Crime
Journal 1994-1996; He is the Author of: Malaysian Law of
Evidence; Malaysian Criminal Procedure Code, Malaysian
Parliament, Malaysian Penal Code- commentary and case law 2006,
jointly with Justice Dato K.C.Vohra, retired Court of Appeal
Judge. He has travelled to: Indonesia, Japan, Korea, London, and
the United States to attend Asian Law Conferences. His areas of
research interestes are: Constitutional Law, Human Rights and
Criminal Justice System.

Kam C. Wong (USA)

Kam C. Wong is an Associate Professor,
Department of Criminal Justice, Xavier University, Ohio. His
areas of expertise are: Comparative policing: PRC vs. U.S.A.
China policing, Hong Kong policing People’s Republic of China
criminal law and criminal process, Homeland Security – USA
PATRIOT Act. Professor Wong was formerly an Inspector of Police
with the Hong Kong Police and was awarded the Commissioner's
High Commendation. He was a one-time black belt karate
instructor for over 20 years. He has practiced and taught law in
the U.S. and Hong Kong. Professor Wong was the former Director
of Chinese Laws Program at Chinese University of Hong Kong. He
served as the vice-president (1999 to 2000) and vice-chair (2000
to 2002) to Hong Kong Society of Criminology. He is currently an
Associate Fellow of Center of Criminology, Hong Kong University.
He is an organizer and founding member of Asian Association of
Police Studies, of which he was the vice-President (2001-2) and
President (2002-3). Professor Wong was an editor with the
Journal of Crime and Delinquency and Managing Editor for Police
Practice and Research: An International Journal. He was the
Editor-in-Chief, Occasional Paper Series, Chinese Law Program.
He is currently on the Editorial Board of International Journal
of Comparative Criminology and Asian Policing.

Keith D. Harries (USA)

Keith Harries is Professor
Emeritus in Geography at the University of Maryland Baltimore
County, since 1985 he was a Professor and was department chair
during 1985-95. He was formerly professor of geography at
Oklahoma State University. He is the author of a dozen books,
most on criminal justice topics, including Geography of Crime
and Justice (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974), Crime and the
Environment (Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1980), Serious
Violence (Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 2nd ed., 1997),
Geography of Execution: The Capital Punishment Quagmire in
America (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), and Mapping Crime:
Principle & Practice (Washington D.C.: U.S. Department of
Justice, 1999). Author of numerous articles, most recently:
Police officers’ perceptions of maps and aerial photographs,
International Journal of Police Science and Management, 6:37-50
(2003), Violence change and cohort trajectories: Baltimore
neighborhoods, 1990-2000, Urban Geography, 24:14-30 (2004). His
recent research has focused on analysis of neighborhoods where
very high and very low crime densities are found adjacent to
each other in order to determine the relevant environmental
determinants of these conditions. He is in the editorial board
of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. He has served as
external examiner for Ph.D. students at University of Madras and
elsewhere. Prof. Keith Harries holds degrees of B.Sc. (Econ),
London School of Economics, M.A. & Ph.D., University of
California, Los Angeles.

K. I. Vibhute (India)

K I Vibhute, is presently the Dean of the Rajiv
Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. He was the former Professor of Law & Head,
Department of Law, University of Pune, Pune; Professor of Law &
Director, Center for Criminal Law Studies, National Law
University (NLU), Jodhpur, and Professor of Law, Addis Ababa
University (AAU), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is currently Professor
of Law, Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University (UNISSA), Bandar
Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam and Emeritus Professor of Law at
the National Law University, Jodhpur. He was visiting Professor
of Law at the University of Technology Mara (UiTM), Shah Alam,
Malaysia; National University of Malaysia (UKM), Bangi,
Malaysia, and Bremen University, Bremen, Germany. He has
authored/edited nine books; latest among them are Pillai’s
Criminal Law (LexisNexis Butterworths, India, 2008); Open Peno-Correctional
Institutions in India (Max Planck Institute for Foreign and
International Criminal Law, Freiberg, Germany, 2006), and
Criminal Justice (Eastern, Lucknow, 2004). Some of his books are
published by LexisNexis Butterworths and NM Tripathi and are
prescribed as textbooks in Indian and foreign Universities. He
has to his credit ninety-nine research/review articles published
in law journals of repute published from India, UK, USA, the
Netherlands, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, and Ethiopia. He
has also contributed to fifteen anthologies, many of which are
prescribed as textbooks by some of the Universities in India. He
has also contributed to Annual Survey of Indian Law, published
by the Indian Law Institute (ILI), New Delhi. He is/was
associated with the Editorial /Advisory Board of: the Journal of
the Indian Law Institute, Asian Yearbook of International Law,
Scholasticus, International Journal of Criminal Justice Science,
Ethiopian Journal of Legal Education, and US-China Law Review.
He is a life member of: Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, Indian
Society of International Law, New Delhi, Environmental
Scientists’ Association of India, and International Jurists’
Organization (Asia).

Liqun Cao (Canada)

Liqun Cao is Professor of sociology and
criminology at the University of Ontario Institute of
Technology, Canada. He has held previous positions at Eastern
Michigan University, Salem State College, and Miami University
in the U.S.A. His research interests include criminological
theory, gun ownership, confidence in the police, police
integrity, public attitudes toward prostitution, race and
ethnicity in criminal justice etc. His research essays have
appeared in many top national and international journals,
including Criminology, Journal of Criminal Justice, Justice
Quarterly, Policing, and Social Forces. He is the author of
Major Criminological Theories: Concepts and Measurement (2004).
Professor Cao was a visiting scholar at Max-Planck International
Criminal Law and Criminology (2000) in Germany, a recipient of
Fulbright Senior Specialist in Lithuania (2004), and is the
Honorary member of Albanian Institute of Sociology. He is a life
member of Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, American Society
of Criminology, and Association of Chinese Professors in Social
Sciences in the U.S. Currently, he is serving as the President
of Association of Chinese Criminology and Criminal Justice in
the U.S. (2010 to 2012).

M.C. Yubaraj Sangroula (Nepal)

Yubaraj Sangroula is Executive Director in
Kathmandu School of Law, Dadhikot 9, Bhaktapur since 2000. He
has completed his Diploma in Law ( Bachelor Level), 1983 from
Tribhuvan University, Nepal Law Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal;
Masters in Laws (LL.M) in 1986 from Patna University, India and
Ph. D from Delhi University, India. The research part of Ph.D.
was completed from Danish Institute of Human Rights, Denmark.
Currently Dr. Sangroula is engaged in teaching Jurisprudence and
Philosophy of. Dr. Sangroula worked as a convener of "Security
Agencies Modernization High Level Taskforce", from Dec. 2008-
Feb 2009, Commission by Government of Nepal. The taskforce was
responsible to conduct inquiry on existing situation of the
security agencies in Nepal (Nepal Police, Armed Police Force,
and National Investigation Department), and design their
restructuring plan. He has conducted several researches in
Criminal Justice, Victimology and Human Rights. Previously he
was Sr. Advisor of Center for Legal Research and Resource
Development (CeLRRd) Kathmandu, Nepal, ( A leading Non
Governmental Organization committed to the Systemic Change in
the Society through promotion of Rule of Law, and fostering
Human Rights and Accessibility to Justice for all), founder
secretary of SALS Forum. He is also member of faculty board of
Purbanchal University. He has published number of articles in
journals, newspaper, law review. He has written and published
book on the issue of human rights, Nepalese legal system, human
trafficking, gender and so forth. Beside these, Dr. Sangroula
was Visiting Scholar of Georgetown Law Center, Georgetown
University, Washington, USA. Jan-April 1995; Visited and
lectured various universities like Wallenberg Institute, Lund
Sweden, 10-12 March 2001; Goteberg University, Social Works
Department, Goteberg, Sweden 13-15 March 2001; Plan
International Sweden to present a Lecture on "Trafficking of
Girls and Women in Nepal", 16 March 2001. He was Consultant of
the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights, UN, to National
Police Academy of Nepal for developing Human Rights Training
Modules. 2001.

Mangai Natarajan (USA)

Mangai Natarajan is a Professor and
coordinator for International Criminal Justice Major at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York.
She has a Masters Degree in Criminology and a Postgraduate
Diploma in Indo-Japanese Studies from the University of Madras,
India. She obtained her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Rutgers
University in 1991 and since then has authored more than thirty
journal articles on a variety of topics, including women in
policing, domestic violence, international crime and justice,
cross-cultural studies, situational crime prevention, drug
treatment and drug dealing. Since 1994 she has been conducting
research on upper-level drug dealing in New York City, supported
by a NIDA Scientist Development Award (1994-2000). She has also
published an edited volume with Prof Mike Hough of Kings
College, London, titled "Illegal Drug Markets: From Research to
Policy" (Crime Prevention Studies volume 11, Monsey, NY:
Criminal Justice Press). More recently, she has published an
encyclopedia on "Women Police" for Ashgate Publishing, UK
(2005). Her book manuscripts in progress are: "Gendered
Policing", "Introduction to International Crime and Justice" and
an encyclopedia on Domestic Violence. She teaches a variety of
courses at graduate level including crime mapping, problem
oriented policing and advanced criminology.

Marc Groenhuijsen (The Netherlands)

Marc Groenhuijsen is professor of criminal
law, criminal procedure and victimology at Tilburg University in
the Netherlands. In 2005, he became the founding director of
INTERVICT, the International Victimology Institute Tilburg. He
has published widely on various victims’ issues. He is
the President of the World Society of Victimology, member of
the Board of Directors of the International Organization for
Victim Assistance, and member of the Board of Directors of the
International Society for Criminology. He also serves as a
part-time judge in the Court of Appeal in Arnhem. Dr.
Groenhuijsen is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of
Arts and Sciences. Internationally, he belongs to the top
researchers in the intersection of Administration of Criminal
Law and Victimology. He has published over 250 articles and has
authored or edited 24 books. The four volume work on the Dutch
Criminal Procedure, can be considered as a standard reference
work in this area for several decades to come. What makes Dr
Groenhuijsen’s work quite unique in The Netherlands is the fact
that he seems to be one of the first to open windows to various
neighbouring fields, like sociology and psychology (criminology,
victimology) and economics (white collar crime, like money
laundering and insider trading and asset forfeiture). Dr.
Groenhuijsen received several prestigious prizes/awards
including the Dr. Hendrik Muller Prize for Behavioural and
Social Sciences, awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of
Arts and Sciences. Dr. Gorenhuijsen is recently elected as
President of World Society of Victimology (WSV) for three years
(2009-2012).

Mark David Chong (Australia)

Mark David Chong is currently a lecturer in criminology
and criminal justice studies at James Cook University
(Australia), and an external assessor (grant applications) for
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Dr Mark graduated with a PhD in Law from the University of
Sydney, where he received his Law School’s Longworth Scholarship
(2003), the Cooke, Cooke, Coghlan, Godfrey and Littlejohn
Scholarship (2004), and the Longworth Scholarship for Academic
Merit (2006). He was initially trained as a criminal defence
lawyer and later secured an LLM (Merit) in Criminology and
Criminal Justice from Queen Mary, University of London.
Thereafter he was appointed as a judicial Referee by the
President of the Republic of Singapore on the recommendation of
the Chief Justice to the Small Claims Tribunals’ bench. However,
given his deep interest in criminal justice issues, Dr Mark
subsequently taught the Singapore Police Force and the Central
Narcotics Bureau at Temasek Polytechnic (Singapore) under a
joint academic programme with Queensland University of
Technology, Australia. He was also an adjunct lecturer and tutor
at SIM University (Singapore), where he designed a criminology
subject specifically for students from the Singapore Police
Force. His current research interests include: Social
Control and Law & Order issues; Policing; Crime Prevention &
Community Safety; Punishment & Sentencing; Municipal &
International Criminal Law; Juvenile Justice; and Psychology &
Crime.

Matthew Robinson (USA)

Matthew Robinson received his PhD in Criminology
& Criminal Justice from the Florida State University in 1997 and
joined the faculty at Appalachian State University ASU) in
Boone, NC. He is currently Professor in the Department of
Government and Justice Studies at ASU, teaching and doing
research primarily in the areas of criminological theory,
capital punishment, national drug control policy, and social
justice. He is the author of fourteen books as well as about 100
other articles, chapters and other writings on these topics.
Robinson is Past President of the Southern Criminal Justice
Association (SCJA) and is currently President of the North
Carolina Criminal Justice Association (NCCJA). He is very active
in community service, mostly in areas related to social justice
and civil liberties.

Michael Pittaro (USA)

Michael Pittaro, PhD is a 28-year criminal
justice veteran, highly experienced in working with criminal
offenders. Before pursuing a career in higher education, Dr.
Pittaro worked in corrections administration; has served as the
Executive Director of a county outpatient drug and alcohol
facility; and as Executive Director of a county drug and alcohol
prevention agency. Dr. Pittaro has been teaching at the
university level (online and on-campus) for the past 15 years
while also serving internationally as an author, editor,
presenter, and subject matter expert. Dr. Pittaro holds a BS in
Criminal Justice (Who’s Who Among University Students – 1989);
an MPA in Public Administration (Summa Cum Laude); and a PhD in
criminal justice (4.0 GPA – Magna Cum Laude). Dr. Pittaro has
contributed to nearly 50 book and scholarly journal publications
and serves on three International Editorial Advisory Boards,
including the International Journal of Criminal Justice
Sciences, the International Journal of Cyber Criminology, and
Elsevier Publishing. He has also served for the past three years
as a program committee member for the South Asian Society of
Criminology and Victimology and as a federal grant peer reviewer
for the United States Department of Justice and National
Institute of Justice. Dr. Pittaro also serves as a corrections
subject matter expert with Pearson publishing, Savant Learning,
McGraw Hill, Cengage Learning, and countless others. He is a
regular contributor to In Public Safety, Corrections One, the
Huffington Post, and is often interviewed on Tier TalkInternet
radio. Dr. Pittaro is a full time faculty member with American
Military University, an adjunct professor with East Stroudsburg
University and Northampton Community College, and serves as an
adjunct professor with Bethel University teaching Police
Officers and Corrections Officers. He has presented at the
International Conference to Combat Human Trafficking, the
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Conference, the Southern
States Correctional Association Conference, the New Jersey
American Corrections Association, and in November 2016, at the
North Carolina American Corrections Association. He resides in
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, USA with his two sons (Dakota and
Darrian).

Muzammil Querishi (UK)

Muzammil Quraishi is a Senior Lecturer of
Criminology and Criminal Justice at University of Salford,
Manchester, UK. Muzammil’s PhD
research provided a comparative criminological evaluation of
South Asian Muslims in Britain and Pakistan. His methodological
leanings are towards qualitative ethnographic research informed
by the Critical Race Theory (CRT) perspective. Prior to his
position at Salford, Muzammil was a Research Fellow at the
Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick,
where he was employed on the ‘Muslims in Prison’ ESRC-funded
Project. This work explored the qualitative experiences of
Muslims prisoners in the UK and France including Islamophobia,
racial discrimination and multi-faith agendas in HM Prison
Chaplaincy. His latest research interests focus on the
experiences of Muslim ex-prisoners and he recently obtained
funding to undertake a pilot project in this area. His general
research interests lie in the following areas: Muslim
populations and crime, Islamic jurisprudence; religion and
ethnicity in prison; colonialism and crime; and comparative
criminology.

Natti Ronel (Israel)

Natti Ronel is an Associate Professor at the
Department of Criminology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan,
Israel. He previously served as the Researcher-in-Chief of the
interdisciplinary Center for Children and Youth Studies in Tel
Aviv University. He is also a licensed clinical criminologist
who holds private practice with criminal population, youth and
adults who exhibit addiction, violence and/or victimization.
Natti leads continuous training courses for Criminal Justice and
Victim Assistance professionals and he is a recurring faculty
member of the annual postgraduate course of “Victimology, victim
assistance, and criminal justice” in the Inter University
Centre, Dubrovnik, where he lectures on therapy for recovering
victims. His various writings reflect both his clinical and
academic experience in criminology. He has a special focus on
the spiritual aspect of criminology and victimology - its values
and impact upon individuals and communities: spiritual based
intervention and recovery, moral transformation, forgiveness and
spiritual intelligence. Natti is the proponent of a new
criminological theories/ Concepts “The Criminal Spin”, Positive
Criminology, and Positive Victimology. He is a member of the
World Society of Victimology, the Israeli Society of Criminology
(board member) and the Israeli Council for Criminology. He has
co-edited a book, Trends and Issues in Victimology. Natti is
married happily with two grown children and live in Jaffa – the
Jewish–Arabic part of Tel Aviv, Israel.

Nick Tilley (UK)

Nick Tilley is Professor of Sociology at
Nottingham Trent University, and Visiting Professor at the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at University College London
and Senior Advisor to the Home Office Director of the East
Midlands. He spent over ten years as a consultant to the Home
Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate working
in the fields of crime prevention and detection, returning to
Nottingham Trent University in April 2003. Nick Tilley is author
of some 100 books, reports, journal articles and book chapters.
His research works has been funded not only by the Home Office
but also by Crime Concern, The National Westminster Bank
Charitable Trust, West Midlands Police, Nottinghamshire Police,
Warwickshire Police, The Government Office for the West
Midlands, and Camden Borough Council. Problem-oriented policing
has been a particular interest for the past few years. In
recognition of his work in fostering problem-oriented policing
the Home Office (UK) funded ‘Tilley Award’ is made annually in
Nick Tilley’s name for the best examples of crime and disorder
problem-solving initiatives submitted by police services and
crime and disorder partnerships. In addition to work in the UK,
Nick Tilley has spent time in Australia and New Zealand advising
police agencies on problem-oriented policing and its
implementation. Nick Tilley is currently on the editorial boards
for Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International
Journal; New Directions for Evaluation; CopCase; The Internet
Journal of Criminology; and Safer Communities: British Journal
of Community Safety Practice.

Nimrod Kozlovski (Israel)

Nimrod Kozlovski is a researcher, lecturer and
consultant in the fields of internet and information law and
information security. He received his doctor degree in law (J.S.D)
from Yale Law School and conducted his Post-Doc research in
computer science as an associate in the computer science
department at Yale University. Dr. Kozlovski consults to
start-ups, high-tech companies and governmental bodies and
serves in the advisory board of several technological companies.
He is the author of the book "The Computer and the Legal
Process" (Israeli Bar Association Press, 2000), co-editor of the
forthcoming book on Computer Crimes (NYU Press, 2006, ed: Jack
Balkin et el.) and numerous articles on the Internet and privacy
law, computer crimes, computer search and seizure and electronic
evidence. He was an Adjunct Professor for CyberCrime at New York
Law School and is currently a lecturer in cyberlaw and
e-commerce at Tel-Aviv University. After receiving his LL.B. and
LL.M. degrees with honors from Tel-Aviv University, he clerked
for Hon. Gavriel Kling, Tel-Aviv District Court, and later for
Hon. Dr. Michael Cheshin of the Israeli Supreme Court. He is a
fellow of the Information Society Project since 2002.

P. Madhava Soma Sundaram (India)

P. Madhava Soma Sundaram is Professor and Head,
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam
Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India. He holds
Masters and PhD degrees in Criminology from the University of
Madras. Earlier he has worked for the Government of India to
develop its policies on Juvenile Delinquency and substance abuse
prevention by Implementing its laws through National, Regional
and State level consultations; working with National/state level
NGOs by creating a network among themselves for urban crime
prevention and Designed, implemented and evaluated capacity
building programmes for Criminal Justice Professionals and civil
society. Starting his career as a Lecturer in Criminology in
1992, he has authored many books, articles and monographs. In
his long career in criminology, he has picked up a few awards,
like ISC - Prof. S. S. Srivastava Award for Excellence in
Teaching and Research in Criminology (2009) and Fellow of the
Indian Society of Criminology (FISC). His areas of academic
proficiency are Juvenile Justice, Psychology of Crime and
Delinquency, Cyber Criminology, Victimology, and Crime
Prevention.

Sesha Kethineni (USA)

Sesha Kethineni is a Professor in
the Department of Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State
University, USA. In her 22 years of teaching at Illinois State
University (ISU), she has taught courses in Introduction to
Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice, Comparative Criminal
Justice, World Criminal Justice Systems, Family Violence,
Evaluation Research Methods and graduate level Introduction to
Research Methods, and Comparative and International Justice. Her
research has largely focused on domestic violence, comparative
juvenile justice, international drug policies, program
evaluation, and female offenders in India and the United States.
Her recent works include female homicide offending in India,
status of children in India, victim and offender characteristics
protective orders in domestic violence cases in the United
States, human rights, program evaluation of Multi-disciplinary
Domestic Violence Teams, youth-parent-battering, and juvenile
and adult Redeploy Illinois program (involved in reducing
incarcerations). Her co-authorized book titled, “Comparative
Delinquency: India and the United States,” received the 1997
Distinguished Book Award by the International Division of
American Society of Criminology. She recently edited a book
titled, "Comparative and International Policing, Justice, and
Ethics." Dr. Kethineni has also received the College of Applied
Science and Technology’s (ISU) Outstanding Researcher Award and
University Outstanding Researcher Award.

Preet (S.K.) Nijhar (UK)

Preet (S.K.) Nijhar is presently
a Lecturer in the Centre for Comparative Criminology and
Criminal Justiceat the University of
Wales, Bangor, UK. She joined the University of Wales, Bangor in
January 2003. Prior to that, she was a visiting research fellow
and lecturer at the Queen’s University of Belfast, and associate
lecturer for the Open University in Ireland. Amongst others,
she
have taught police, probation and prison officers, as well as
prisoners, including para-militaries in high security jails.
She
have worked for NGOs in London, South Africa and in India,
mainly advising on cases involving violence, gender and ‘race’.
She have also worked on criminal justice issues in South Africa,
Hong Kong, and in India. In the late days of apartheid South
Africa, she worked as a research officer on a Guggenheim funded
project, Informal Mediation and Restorative Processes in South
African townships and subsequently during the country’s
transition from apartheid to democracy, was seconded to the
United Nations (UNOMSA) to work on nation building. In 2003,
she
was one of two UK citizens, seconded by the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office (UK), to the European Union’s training
programme in Civilian Conflict Crisis Management in Transition.
Her primary research interests are in developing socio-legal
understanding of justice and ethnic issues in a comparative
context – specifically in postcolonial societies, with
particular reference to India.

Sneh Lata Tandon (India)

Sneh Lata Tandon, retired as the senior-most
Professor of Social Work at the University of Delhi. She did her Ph.D. in Social Work in
1987 from Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central University at Delhi,
India. She graduated in economics from the University of Delhi
in 1966 and did M.A. Social Work (MSW) from the University of
Delhi in 1968. In 1981, she did a Certificate Course in Juvenile
Care Service from the International Training Institute, Middle
Head, Sydney, Australia. Dr. Tandon possess more than 40 years
of teaching, research and other professional experience in the
fields of Criminology, Correctional Administration, Social
Welfare Administration, and other Social Welfare areas. She has
served in various academic institutions of India. She has three
books to her credit, viz. Senior Citizens: Perspective for the
New Millennium (2001), Reliance Publishing House, New Delhi;
Probation: A New Perspective (1990), Reliance Publishing House,
New Delhi; Issues in Criminal Justice Administration, Resource
Material Series (1987) Editors: Chattoraj, B. N. and Tandon, Sneh
Lata, ICFS, New Delhi (Mimeographed).

Srisombat Chokprajakchat (Thailand)

Srisombat Chokprajakchat is currently an
associate professor and program director in the Doctoral Program
in Criminology, Justice Administration and Society at Faculty of
Social Sciences and Humanities, Mahidol University, Thailand.
She is also serving as a visiting lecturer of Faculty of
Political Science at Ramkhamhaeng University. She is currently
assigned by the National Anti-Corruption Commission Thailand, as
a member of the National Strategic Steering Committee (Private
sector) on Anti-corruption. Srisombat Chokprajakchat has
authored book on anti-corruption policy in Thailand (Thai
version) and is the co-author of book on victimology (Thai
version). She serves as a member of Editorial Board of
international journal of Crime, punishment and the law: An
international journal (USA). Srisombat Chokprajakchat is the
principal investigator of several researches. Her research
interests include criminal justice policy, law enforcement
agencies, anti-corruption, victim and witness protection
program, drug policy and human rights. She is currently the
principal investigator on a grant funded by the Department of
Rights Protection and Liberties, Ministry of Justice in
Thailand. Srisombat Chokprajakchat graduated with First Class
Honors in Political Science from Kasetsart University in 1981.
In 1984 she took a Master of Criminology and Criminal Justice
degree from Mahidol University. She received her Ph.D. degree in
Public Policy from George Mason University, USA in 2004.

Stanley Yeldell (USA)

Stanley B. Yeldell has been a member of the
Law/Justice Department, Rowan University for thirty years. He is
a Subject Specialist for the American Council on Education,
Distance Education Center, and the Thomas Edison
College-Corporate Higher Education. Moreover, he was appointed
by The Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court to be the
Chairman of the Gloucester County Advisory Probation Board
(1991-2001), and he also serves on the Glassboro Awareness
Advisory Scholarship Board (1993-present) and the Thomas Edison
College-Corporate Higher Education Advisory Board
(2000-present). He is the Law/Justice Advisor for the student
organizations: Gamma Chi and Victim Awareness (1997-present).

Stephen Z. Levin (Israel)

Stephen Z Levine holds a PhD in psychology. He is
Tenured Assoc. Prof., Department of Community Mental Health,
University of Haifa, Israel. His research focuses on the
following overlapping themes: criminology (disasters and
careers), advanced statistics, and mental health (mainly
schizophrenia and PTSD). Both research themes are examined
predominantly with large scale epidemiological longitudinal
datasets. He has in excess of 20 peer reviewed journal
publications and has published articles in journals, such as Law
and Human Behavior and Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Sudipto Roy (USA/India)

Sudipto Roy is a Professor at the Department
of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Indiana State University.
Dr. Roy has published his research on the impact of Victim
Restitution Programs (both public and private), Day Reporting
Center, and Electronically Monitored Home Detention Programs on
adult as well as juvenile offenders in Criminology and Social
Integration, Federal Probation, Journal of Contemporary Criminal
Justice, Journal of Crime and Justice, Journal of Offender
Monitoring, The Justice Professional, and in several books.
Currently, he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board as
well as a reviewer for the Criminology and Social Integration
(published by the University of Zagreb, Croatia). Additionally,
he reviews manuscripts for several journals, e.g. Justice
Quarterly, The Justice Professional. Furthermore, he has
presented a number of papers in international, national, and
regional professional meetings. In 1992 and 1994, he was invited
as a resource faculty at the Eighth and the Tenth Annual Post
Graduate Seminar on "Victims and the Criminal Justice System"
held at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Also, as a doctoral student he participated in the same seminar
held at the Inter-University Centre of Post-graduate Studies,
Dubrovnik, Croatia, in 1987. He has conducted varied evaluation
research projects on community correctional programs in
Michigan, Delaware, New York, and Indiana. His areas of
specialization are corrections, juvenile justice, victimology,
criminology, program evaluation, statistics, and race and ethnic
relations.

Thomas Gilly (France)

Dr. Thomas Albert Gilly is Director of the
European and International Research Group on Crime Ethics and
Social Philosophy and chief editor of the ERCES Online Quarterly
Review. He received an LLD, a Master in Law, and degree of
Advanced Higher Studies in Criminology and Criminal Sciences. He
has also received a Master in German Law, and a graduate degree
in (Social) Philosophy. He was Chair at ESC and ASS Conferences.
He was and he is involved in international and European Research
projects and works as expert within different academic
institutions and non governmental and governmental organizations
(Prison Watch etc). His special interests are historical and
theoretical criminology, comparative safety and security studies
and terrorism, social and moral philosophy, ethics and criminal
justice, legal history. Among his major writings
are “La Sécurité Intérieure. Un Concept en Mutation” Revue
internationale de criminologie et de police technique, 1998 ; “
France “ (van Kalmthout/Derks, eds), Probation and Probation
Systems. A European Perspective, 2000; An Advocacy for
Investigation and Fundamental Theoretical Discussion of the
Relation between Crime, Ethics and Social Philosophy, ERCES
Online Quarterly Review 2004.

Tina Patel (UK)

Tina Patel presently teaches Criminology at
University of Salford, UK. Tina completed her first degree in
Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moores University. She then
spent 3½ years at the University of Sheffield studying for the
qualification of PhD, in a study titled: Transracial adoption –
A study of race, identity and policy. She has also been involved
in a research project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation,
at Nottingham Trent University titled: Overcoming school
exclusion and achieving successful youth transitions within
African-Caribbean communities. In September 2004, Tina returned
to Liverpool John Moores University to take up a post as
lecturer in Criminology and Sociology. Tina joined the
University of Salford in September 2008, as Lecturer in
Criminology (Violence). Her research and teaching interests
relate to ‘race’, exclusion, police and violent behaviour. She
is currently undertaking research into the policing of racist
violence in Northern Ireland. Tina would welcome research
collaboration and supervision in any of the following areas:
race/ethnicity; racial identity; violence (especially racist
violence); police practice and culture (especially following
MacPherson, 1999); and qualitative research methods (in
particular oral life history; researching marginalised groups
and researching the police).

Uri Yanay (Israel)

Professor Uri Yanay teaches at the Paul Baerwald
School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Israel. His cross-national research
evaluates social policy guidelines and public services designed
for victims of crime and terrorism. Part of this research deals
with the impact of selected mediation and restorative justice
program aimed at reducing community tensions and solving local
conflicts.

Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic (Serbia)

Vesna
is the Director of the Victimology Society of Serbia and
professor at the Faculty of Defectology in Belgrade. Her main
interests are in victimisation, gendered violence and
reconciliation. Her main geographical focus is Serbia.

Yuning Wu (USA/China)

Yuning Wu is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Criminal Justice at Wayne State University. She
obtained a law degree from Renmin University of China at
Beijing, China in 2003. She obtained a doctoral degree
in Criminology from the University of Delaware in the United
States. Her main research interests include citizen evaluations
of criminal justice, policing, and international/comparative
criminal justice. She is the author of fifteen peer-reviewed
journals articles and book chapters. Her most recent articles
have appeared in Justice Quarterly, Punishment & Society, Police
Quarterly, Policing, and the Journal of Criminal Justice. She
has also delivered over twenty presentations in professional
conferences held by leading criminological/criminal justice
associations in the field. Yuning Wu serves as a manuscript
reviewer for several high-ranking journals and served
as a program committee member for the 2011 Academy of Criminal
Justice Sciences annual meeting and the Second International
Conference of the South Asian Society of Criminology and
Victimology (SASCV) 2013 at Kanyakumari, India.